Entries Tagged as 'Composition'

We heard from Josh Fishbein today that he has won the Delaware Valley Chorale’s 2013 Competition for Young Choral Composers. Josh is a Ph.D. student in composition who has already won several prestigious composition prizes. He says: “I was recently informed that my composition, Adon Olam for SATB Chorus and Piano, has been selected as […]

Prof. Mark Carlson, founder and Director of Pacific Serenades, shared the following today: “I was in NYC for the New Music USA awards ceremony, at which Pacific Serenades was being honored with a Letter of Distinction. The Founders’ Award winner was Meredith Monk, and besides Pacific Serenades, the other Letter of Distinction winners were William […]

We have just received this news from Prof. Antonio Lysy regarding last summer’s festival, which he organizes every year, in Tuscany–Incontri in Terra di Siena. La Foce is the location of this annual festival and there is a lovely article from The Guardian/Observer describing the locale, the history and last yeawr’s festival. Please read the […]

We have just found out that our talented 2008 MA grad in Composition, Joseph Trapanese, who has been very busy with film composing both before and after his graduation, has another feather in his cap. He has had a major triumph in Hollywood: the feature starring Tom Cruise, which is doing incredible sales internationally. OBLIVION […]

Music Department Prof. Lefkowitz and student Jamie Thierman recently traveled to Russia to hear their compositions performed on January 28th at the Moscow Concert Hall. The original concert was advertised at this website. Professor Lefkowitz has followed up on this exciting trip and performance with more information on interviews conducted while they were in Moscow. […]

We have had exciting emails recently from both of these talented students. Josh Fishbein Josh Fishbein has entered into a publishing contract with ECS Publishing (see some of our archived news articles and blogs on Josh’s prizewinning compositions) for several of his choral works. A fuller announcement can be read on the ECS website. Congratulations, […]

UCLA Department of Music Theory and Composition professor Mark Carlson has let us know that two of his seminal works, View from the Hilltop for clarinet, string trio, and piano, and his Piano Quartet. In addition, excerpts will be played from his Hall of Mirrors.. Please read all about this upcoming performance at: http://www.coloradochamberplayers.org/events/mark_carlson

For those of you interested in great performances of contemporary music under the direction of acclaimed Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng, please plan to attend the upcoming concert of UCLA’s Contempo Flux Contemporary Music Ensemble. ———————————- The Contempo Flux Spring 2012 chamber music concert will be held on Sunday, June 10th, at 2:00. Our moveable program […]